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First Look: Watchmen Action Figures By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2008 1:40 am EST DC Direct will unveil four Watchmen action figure prototypes at New York Comic-Con this Friday, but EW has a first look at two of them: Rorschach and Nite Owl. The figures will hit stores in January 2009, and will retail for around $14.99 each. I want them. Interesting trivia learned from wikipedia: Because DC Direct sells primarily to the comic book specialty market, the figures ship to stores on predictable dates, a rarity for toys....

First Look At Sex And The City: The Movie By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2007 12:29 pm EST MTV have published the first photo from the Sex and The City movie, which features Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw and her love interest, Mr. Big (Chris Noth). I was never one to watch the television series, and a big screen movie excites me even less, but I thought I’d post this because someone reading is probably interested (oh, and the news is slow today)....

Gore Verbinski Might Not Direct Bioshock By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2009 6:38 pm EST Things aren’t sounding good for the big screen adaptation of the popular video game Bioshock. Universal greenlit the movie, and director Gore Verbinski stepped down from directing a possible fourth film in the Pirates of the Carribbean series. But in late April, Universal shut down the production, due to the film’s ballooning budget. The plan was to rework the script and explore possible locations outside the country which would offer financial incentives....

Johnnie To’s Vengeance Movie Trailer By Devindra Hardawar/April 11, 2009 10:54 pm EST Johnnie To may be one of the most prolific Hong Kong directors working today, having directed at least two films a year since the early 90s, but he’s also one of the most important. With John Woo and many other prominent HK directors crossing the waters to direct films in America during the 90s, things back home started to get a bit stale, especially when it came to modern-day crime films....

Jokerized Dark Knight Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2008 3:07 am EST At the latest Dark Knight viral events, one winner was chosen from the audience to take home a 35mm print of The Dark Knight movie trailer. As it turns out, this 35mm print is actually defaced by The Joker himself. One of the winners put the Jokerfied trailer online. Check it out after the jump. Thanks to Patrick O and Andrew A for submitting this video to us....

Joss Whedon And Morgan Spurlock Making Comic-Con Documentary By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 6:52 pm EST Super-Size Me director Morgan Spurlock is supposedly teaming-up with geek writer/director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) for a documentary about San Diego Comic-Con and fanboy culture. Sources tell E! that Spurlock and Whedon are currently searching for three super geeks to follow around at this year’s Comic-Con, and the three months leading up to the mega-geek convention....

Knight And Day Release Moves Up One Week By David Chen/March 6, 2010 5:45 am EST The new Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day was originally scheduled to be released on Friday, July 2, 2010, putting it up as counterprogramming against The Last Airbender and to some degree, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (which drops the following Wednesday). Variety now has word that the film will now be released on June 25, 2010....

Leap Year Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2009 1:00 pm EST Universal Pictures has released the first movie trailer for Leap Year, which is a romantic comedy about a woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day. Amy Adams and Matthew Goode star in Leap Year, a romantic comedy that follows one woman’s determined quest to get married to the perfect guy…despite what fate has in store for her....

LOL: The Asylum’s Terminator Salvation Knock-Off The Terminators By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2009 12:43 am EST The Asylum, a direct-to-dvd production company responsible for producing cheap knock-offs of the latest big budget Hollywood movies (termed “Knockbusters) takes on Terminator Salvation with a movie titled The Terminators. The Asylum’s past titles include: Street Racer , Sunday School Musical , Transmorphers, Snakes on a Train, I Am Omega, Da Vinci Treasure, Temple of the Skulls, HG Wells’ War of the Worlds, AVH: Alien vs....

Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Comics? By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2008 9:46 am EST I remember playing Capcom’s Street Fighter vs. Marvel Superheroes back in the ay when kids still frequented arcades. I’m more of a casual gamer now, but this caught my attention. Rumor has it that the new Mortal Kombat game is actually Mortal Kombat vs. DC Comics. Some people think it’s fake, although one site claims to have a confirmation from Midway, and other fans are screaming “Batman cannot get decapitated!...

Neckface Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Nov. 9, 2009 4:00 pm EST Rising to prominence in the street art scene throughout the early aughts and now bustling inside the mainstream with shoe deals and bewildered news reports, the California artist known as Neckface is a fascinating subject. For one, much of his art was and remains illegal via the defacing of billboards and buildings with “Neckface” spray-painted in a signature, Satan-evoking scrawl....

New Poster: Pixar’s Up By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 13, 2008 5:06 pm EST Yahoo! Movies has a look at the theatrical teaser poster for Pixar’s Up. As unsure as I am about Pixar’s next film (I want to love it, but nothing I’ve seen so far has me sold), there is no denying the fantastical color scheme used in the early marketing is beyond beautiful. I had previously assumed that the trailer would premiere attached to Bolt in November, but the early release of the theatrical one-sheet has me thinking that it might happen sooner....

New Princess And The Frog And Christmas Carol Images By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 17, 2009 5:07 pm EST Every year, the stockholders and business partners of the Walt Disney Corporation and their many subsidiaries receive a lavish annual report. There’s a pdf version, for the paperless e-heads, and also, I imagine, a printed one, for those who don’t care for laptops, Blackberries and, apparently, trees. I’ve never seen one of these solid ones, but I bet it’s printed on beautiful stock, shimmers in the twilight and smells of varnish – oh, these Disney’s don’t do stuff by halves – but I have perused the cyber copy for a few years running now....

New Toy Story 3 Character: Sparks By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2010 12:57 pm EST Briefly: Today is a Toy Story 3 day in a couple of ways. While Peter just saw the film at ShoWest, we’ve got a new character poster to show off. Not quite equivalent things, are they? The new character is Sparks, and he’s basically the robot of every boy’s dreams…in the late ’50s, at least. The marketing copy for Sparks goes like this:...

OMG: Transformers 2 Super Bowl Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2009 10:37 pm EST Holy Shit! The Super Bowl television advertisement for Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen has been unleashed and it’s insane. I don’t usually mark out and get all fanboy on the site, but this television advertisement has me extremely excited. Sure, Michael Bay steals the flicker teaser of the Terminator Salvation trailer after calling McG out for making a movie with giant robots, but lets forget about that for now....

Ratatouille Could Have Been “Rats!” By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2007 11:14 pm EST Did you know: Before director Brad Bird took over production of Pixar’s Ratatouille, the film went under a couple different titles: “Rat!” or “Rats!” Above we bring you two of the title concept designs courtesy of Pixar’s new hardcover coffee table book, The Art of Ratatouille [via: JH]. Ratatouille Could Have Been “Rats!” By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2007 11:14 pm EST...

Scream 4 Set For 3D? Wes Craven “Closer Than Ever” To Signing By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 23, 2009 2:34 pm EST Update: Seems like you’ll be able to keep one eye closed through Scream 4 after all. Kevin Williamson has tweeted “What is this Scream 4 in 3D? First I heard of it” and “Guys? Really? 3D? Nahhhhh”. I guess those Friday the 13th 3D in-jokes will have to wait for another time....

Seann William Scott To Star In Kevin Smith’s Hit Somebody By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 21, 2010 6:00 pm EST Here’s an exact quote: Title character? If it was Hit SomeBuddy, maybe. Seann William Scott, who worked with Smith on Cop Out, will play Buddy, the title character in Hit Somebody. The script, based on a Warren Zevon song with lyrics by acclaimed writer Mitch Albom, is a story of a hockey enforcer who strives to score just one goal in a hockey game....

Sneak Peek: The Seventh Season Of 24 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2008 3:29 pm EST THR got their hands on a two and a half minute trailer for the new season of 24. No, this is not a trailer for the November 23rd television movie. This is a trailer that will air at the conclusion of that TV movie, a sneak peek at next year’s series which features Jack Bauer in Washington DC....

Soderbergh’s Spalding Gray Documentary, And Everything Is Going Fine, To Premiere At Slamdance 2010 By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 9, 2009 12:46 am EST Slamdance 2010 (the other Park City, UT film fest) is where you’ll want to be to catch the world premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming documentary, And Everything Is Going Fine. The doc concerns the life and work of Spalding Gray, who made a career as a writer, actor, and monologist....